The Centrality, Pre-eminance and Supremacy of Christ in All Things

Before He created, He was slain by His Father, and those glorious portions were in Him, and they died with Him. And creation and everything in creation that did not exist died too, but that Lamb rose from the dead before creation, and those glorious, honored portions rose with Him. But the old fallen creation did not rise, and it was slain before it was created. You must understand that this creation has already been slain and done away with even before it was created. Please say Praise the Lord. That happened inside the Son of God before creation…but that’s not my point.

Then, having finished all things before He created all things, He did the most incredible thing. These marvelous, wonderful portions of Him were so honored and so glorious and so pure and so perfected were part of Him and in Him, but I want you to try to see it. Can you see it? Can you see these portions of His being that are part of Him and of Him and in Himself? His life in Him: it’s Christ. See those wonderful, glorious, wonderful. Do you see that they have all with Him died, and do you see they have all with Him risen? And do you realize there’s no creation?

Now, how great is this glorious Lord, Christ, before creation? I don’t know, but I can tell you this. When He created, He could not create creation out there, because there was no “out there.” Because He was absolutely All. There was no way to create creation without that creation being created in Him, because there wasn’t a room in a place now. And creation was created in Christ.

Now, where’s creation? And so, He stood at the beginning and kind of wondered what was going to take place, wondering how the end would turn out. I’ll do it again: Here is Christ, and here is creation. Glory. Here is Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning.” And here is, “In all things passed away.” Here’s the cross. Here’s the tomb. There’s Abraham. There’s Moses. There’s Peter. There’s Paul. And there’s somebody who looks a whole lot like you. And there is the end where all things passed away.

So, the Lord didn’t know what was going to happen. You know what He did? He just moved over here to where He is, His creation, and you were wondering what’s going to happen. He did too. So, He just came over here where He is, and while He was getting there, He passed all the places where He is. And while He was passing all the places where He is, He saw you ask Him to save you. He said, Oh. And so, He went back to the beginning, where He is, opened the book, lo and behold, closed it, and went back to the end, where He is, and as He passed you at that moment, getting saved, putting your heart in His hands, receiving Him, He passed that place where He is again. And He said, Oh, that’s one of my chosen ones, and then He came to the end where He always is, and He saw you in the great throng of the redeemed singing, “Thou art worthy. Thou art worthy…worthy of glory and honor. And He saw you there where He is, where He only lives, and He said, Oh, you made it. And so, He said, Oh, that’s wonderful. I am going to choose you before the foundation of the world, where He is, where He always is.

Because He had already finished this creation before this creation existed, He went back to before the beginning, where He is, and He wrote your name in the Book of Life and closed that book with the assurance that nothing could take that name out of His Book.  Then He went back to the end where He always is, and He saw you in that great throng. He saw all of those wonderful, glorious portions of His being. One of them had your name, with His life and His divinity and His own self, Christ Himself, and He saw all those portions come together, and you were so beautiful, so pure, to be honored above all things. So pure and so holy. You really are beautiful, and you and all those marked-off beings, portions of His being, which were marked off in Christ before the foundation of the world, for He always is, before the beginning,

He watched all of those portions of His being come together after the end, in that place where He always is, and He saw all the chips of Himself come together, and become one again, but separate from Him, yet not separate. And there emerged a beautiful girl. And so, He said, “I will be one with her.” He said that at the end, beyond the end where He always is. Therefore He said, “I will go back to before the beginning where I always am, and with my Father and with the Holy Spirit we will counsel in the Godhead to mark off portions of my being and put names on them and put those names in the Book of Life that I might have a bride, and that will be my purpose, my eternal purpose.”

And so, before the beginning where He always is, He chose to have you as His beautiful, beautiful bride. You, sisters, who are really beautiful, have to forgive me, but I really like to look at a beautiful woman. There are not a whole lot of them in the world. All of them in this room, of course, are.  I cannot help but wonder how beautiful, then, can that girl be. And so He stood beyond the end where He always is, and He received her to Himself, and they joined as a husband and wife join. They joined, and they became one, and the old creation was already gone. When they became one, things were very similar to the way they were in the beginning, and she became one with Him as they joined, and she became one with Him, and she went into Him, became one with Him, and went into Him because that’s where she always was. She had always been just one place: in Christ.

Before creation, dear honored one, you were in Him, and when the fall took place, you were in Him. When time began, you were in Him, and one day He came to you, looking for you because He was in love with you, and you received Him, and you were placed in Christ. He was there at the moment that you were saved. That’s where He always is, and you were placed in Him, where you always have been.

At the very end, when He let this creation dissolve for the second time, but not the second time at all, because this creation had been crucified and destroyed before creation began, but in time and in eternity, when He was slain and rose, when that intersected with the cross of Christ on Calvary, in Jerusalem, and in the garden tomb, then creatures saw what had taken place before creation, and creatures saw this old creation pass away. And you were not there, because you were in Christ: dead, and risen. You were never part of this creation, for you have always been in Christ.

That’s where you always are. You are always where He is. And in fact, the new creation is older than the old creation, and the new creation preceded the old creation, and the new creation came after the old creation because Jesus Christ is before creation and after creation, and you were in Him, and you are the new creation. But you’re not a creation at all, for you are that which cannot be created, for you have in you a Life that was previous to creation. It is uncreated Life, and you belong and always have belonged, belong now, and always will belong where He is. He is at the end and beyond the end, and He is here. This is where He always is, and at the point where you were saved; that’s where He always is, and you are at the foundation of the world where He always is, and you are with Him before the creation. That’s where He always is because the creation is in Him, and He completely envelops it, and you are in Him. And you are in Him. And you are in Him. And you are in Him. And you are in Him. And you always are in Him. Your name is written and was written where He always is, in the Book of Life, before the foundation of the world.

But that’s not my point. I have a point greater than that. I have a point beyond the point. Is that some Lord or is that some Lord? By the way, this is the radical wing of the house church conference, and this is what I meant by the church is built on a revelation of Jesus.